\Here is a clip from my latest book, “Liberty’s Secrets: The Lost Wisdom of America’s Founders” – currently No. 1 in books on political freedom at Amazon – about the ultimate reason the Founders were able to set up our country for success:
“There is no special providence for Americans, and their nature is the same with that of others,” remarked [John] Adams. And his fellow Founders shared the same sentiments, which is one of the reasons they put so much emphasis, as we will see, on virtue, knowledge, and a unique conception of liberty that would act as a preservative of the American experiment. They were under no delusions that Americans were any less subject to the imperfections of human nature,
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/our-founders-pragmatic-idealists/#lFVLbhzZCZAb0Pbl.99